Table 5.
Quality assessment of studies included in the quantitative synthesis (N = 10). These studies examined correlates of wellbeing or mental health among YPLHIV in SSA $
| Author year | Sampling (max score 4) | Measurement (max score 8) | Reporting (max score 8) | Total score | Quality | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generalisability | Sample size | Psychometric properties of scale | Scale administration | Description of analysis | Reporting of regression analysis | Adjustment of confounders | Maximum score = 20 | ||
| (Abebe et al., 2019) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12 | Medium |
| (Dow et al., 2016) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | Low |
| (Earnshaw et al., 2018) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | Low |
| (Gaitho et al., 2018) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | High |
| (Gentz et al., 2017) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | Low |
| (Kim et al., 2015) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 15 | Medium |
| (Mbalinda et al., 2015) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 12 | Medium |
| (Mutumba et al., 2017) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12 | Medium |
| (Okawa et al., 2018) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | Low |
| (Woollett et al., 2017) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | Low |
$ = The quality assessment tool that was applied was adapted from the Cochrane guidance on assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies (Higgins and Green, 2011)